Henrik Horge & Calypsokameratene take the audience on a musical journey filled with sun, palm breezes and Caribbean-inspired folk rhythms, with tropical melodies and humorous lyrics in Norwegian calypso. The concert is combined with a music workshop with the Superjazz group.

SUPERJAZZ: Henrik Horge & Calypsokameratene

Scandic Voss

This new trio, with its somewhat unusual instrumentation, is named after the phenomenon "Prove that you are a human!" – complex rhythms, tonal lines inspired by Indian ragas. Music made by people, for people, in a room.

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Ole Bull Akademiet

The Folkofonen is an organ made of human voices. Sound and images are played back using a computer program via a MIDI keyboard. The voices and faces of people of all ages, all backgrounds, all economic circumstances and all genders are united on a large screen.

Folkofonen

Voss Kulturhus

A musical family performance with humor, energy and a wide range of genres, with music and lyrics by Heidi Solheim. The performance is a collaboration with Senja Children's Festival and is suitable for ages 3–10.

Dinosaus & Rockefot

Park

Benedicte Maurseth presents her album Mirra, the follow-up to Hárr (2022), a work about the annual cycle of the wild reindeer (villrein), combining Hardanger fiddle folk music with minimalism, krautrock and free improvisation. Part of the Vestnorsk jazzsenter tour scheme 'Den musikalske stamvegen'. Followed by a conversation (Jazznytt18) with Audun Vinger in the foyer of Gamlekinoen.

Mirra

Gamlekinoen

Jazznytt 18: Audun Vinger in conversation with Benedicte Maurseth in the Gamlekinofoajéen, right after her performance of the concert concept Mirra.

Conversation with Audun Vinger and Benedicte Maurseth

Dag Helleve – poetry, reading; Bjørnar Kaldefoss Tveite – bass; Heidi Kvelvane – saxophone; Kåre Opheim – drums. Jazz concert with texts about winter, nature and climate change in Voss.

Vettùren so va

Bjørn Tomren is a versatile artist and songwriter, known from the NRK series Stjernekamp and from the duo Polkabjørn & Kleine Heine. The concert spans Americana, jazz, folk songs, yodeling and dialect punk.

Bjørn Tomren

Jazznytt 18: Audun Vinger in conversation with composer and jazz veteran Lars Horntveth. The conversation covers, among other things, this year's Tingingsverk: Lambda.

Conversation: Audun Vinger and Lars Horntveth

Park Café Stationen

Vildebjønns Selskap is a vise trio that performs self-written music in Norwegian. The trio follows in the footsteps of the 1970s vise tradition, but with a conversational language and elements of jazz in the form of irregular and shifting time signatures and surprising chord progressions.

Vildebjønns Selskap

Vossa Jazz concert with Harald Lassen and band. Energetic improvisation and songwriting in Norwegian nu-jazz.

Harald Lassen

A light jazz trio playing largely acoustic in the piano bar at Park Hotell. The music blends American swing, Nordic jazz traditions and African inspiration. The concert is free and open to all.

Briotrio

Park Hotell

Otis Sandsjö, the driving force behind Y-OTIS, left Sweden for Berlin, with one sound in constant motion: fluid, genre-crossing and impossible to pin down. Y-OTIS TRE (2024) continues the journey and opens another chapter in Sandsjö's vision of fluid jazz, a "sound mosaic" that draws as much from hip-hop and electronica as from jazz.

Y-OTIS

Park – Jazzklubben

Monstera is an energetic sextet playing dance floor jazz led by trumpeter and composer Ola Lømo Ellingsen. They combine club music, drum'n'bass, improvisation and unpredictable melodies in creative ways.

Monstera

Ungdomshallen

The tradition is back – get to know old Voss! A walk through Vangen with small and large drops of local history, led by Eirik Helleve, director of the Voss Folk Museum.

Cultural Walk with Eirik Helleve

Voss Gondol

With a group of hand-picked musicians, Lars Horntveth presents a soundscape that combines composed material with improvisation, where the ensemble both shapes and challenges the music. The music reflects Horntveth's range: Latin American tropicália, organic electronica, stripped-down ambient, psychedelic rock and jazz.

Tingingsverket: Lars Horntveth – Lambda

Badnajazzparaden is back! A free jazz parade through the streets of Voss, with improvised music and face painting for young and old, led by Plutseleg badnajazzteater. The 12:00 performance requires a seat ticket of 25 kr.

Christmas Eve Jazz Parade

Voss aktivitetspark

Sein start, long tones, and maybe a celebrity? Who knows? You get access to the jam in Ungdomshallen if you have a day pass for Saturday or a festival pass.

JAZZJAM Saturday

Seven young talents present dreamy, complex and uncomplicated music cultivated in the jazz program at the Grieg Academy in Bergen. A concert inspired by star signs, horoscopes and other scientific and pseudoscientific phenomena. Free concert.

Astrological Institute

Improvised fairy-tale theater for children, where the audience helps shape the stories. Commissioned performance especially for Badnajazz. Target audience: children with their families.

Plutselig Badnajazzteater

Isbit is a new, young band that has made a name for itself through Urørt on P3 and plays jazzy, atmospheric and funky pop that they write together. With Norwegian lyrics, relaxed beats and a sense of style that belongs to far more established bands.

Isbit

Free concert with Voss Big Band and conductor Are Ovesen. Jazz and big band music at Gamlekinoen, the foyer.

Nons-jazz with Voss Big Band

Draumemøtet mellom Maridalen og Lars Lillo-Stenberg! Concert presenting the album Fransk utgang (released 28 November 2025), a collaboration between the jazz trio Maridalen and vocalist/guitarist Lars Lillo-Stenberg, with melodic, narrative Nordic chamber jazz and original songs written together during a stay in Sanxay, France.

Maridalen & Lars Lillo-Stenberg

Soul artist Charlotte Dos Santos blends jazz, vintage samples and Brazilian musical traditions. Spellemannsprisen winner for R&B/Soul.

Charlotte Dos Santos

Solo concert at Vangskyrkja featuring original music and readings of his own texts. Part of Vossa Jazz 2026.

Ketil Bjørnstad

Vangskyrkja

Sølvtrå crosses genre boundaries and has a varied sonic expression in which improvisation, rhythmic drive and multi-voiced vocals are central. At Vossajazz they bring music from their debut album Sølvtrå (Øra Fonogram, autumn 2025) together with brand-new material.

Sølvtrå

Daytime concert of popular music from the Baltic Sea region from the 1930s, '40s, '50s and '60s: Finnish humppa, Yiddish tango, waltzes, Nordic Swedish swing and songs in German by Brecht/Weill.

Gabriels Novgorod

The folk-rock band Gangar burst onto the scene like a comet, spreading their boundary-breaking versions of Norwegian traditional music through electrifying live shows. The band draws inspiration from legends such as AC/DC and Meshuggah, but also from historical wax cylinder recordings of Norwegian folk music.

Gangar

The German saxophonist and composer Nicole Johänntgen makes music that is groovy, experimental and at times melancholic. Nicole's playing swings, and here and there you can hear traces of the Motown era of the 1970s.

Nicole Johänntgen Trio (DE)

How can we ensure a diverse and free cultural life throughout the entire country? Conference with presentations, conversations and political debate on the independent cultural sector, the Norwegian Cultural Fund and cultural policy.

Culture Conference 2026

Over the last few years, Henriette Eilertsen has established herself as an innovative voice on the Norwegian jazz scene. With a playful approach to the jazz flute, she moves nimbly between contemporary jazz, improvisation and chamber music expression. In the Henriette Eilertsen Trio she is joined by cellist Joel Ring and drummer Øystein Aarnes Vik. The music is expressive and hypnotic, inspired by jazz, folk music and experimental sounds.

Henriette Eilertsen Trio

Daniel Herskedal Trio presents the album «Movements of Air», his tenth release on Edition Records. The concert is the opening concert of Vossa Jazz 2026.

Opening Concert: Daniel Herskedal Trio

Danceable and audience-friendly New Orleans-inspired music: boogie-woogie, jazz, ragtime and blues. The duo consists of Ernst Wiggo Sandbakk (drums) and Eirik Tveten (piano).

SuperCharger Duo

A cross-disciplinary performance about self-improvement, apocalypse and community, written by Petter Dalane. A charismatic hypnotist is driven to the brink of madness by his faith in market forces and self-improvement, before he finds salvation in the big band and their musical togetherness.

Cosmic Swing Orchestra: The Jazz Togetherness Show

Under Vossa Jazz 2026 held Synnøve Brøndbo Plassen the traditional concert in Voss Sparebank. An acoustic concert with vocals and string instruments in an open room. The concert is free.

Synnøve Brøndbo Plassen

Voss Sparebank

Håkon Brunborg is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer from Oslo, known for his genre-crossing sonic universe. The concert presents material from the album "Vinterpalasset," a more cinematic and expansive soundscape. The concert is part of Vossa Jazz 2026 and is included in festival passes or day passes for Friday.

Håkon Brunborg

Exhibition opening for festival artist Ingunn van Etten, designer of this year's festival poster for Vossa Jazz 2026. The exhibition is free.

Exhibition Opening: Ingunn van Etten

Andreas Rotevatn is one of the most original and versatile musicians we have. Not only does he write excellent lyrics, but he is also a composer, vocalist and trombonist! In the old cinema during Vossa Jazz, you will hear music that is energetic, mesmerizing and heartfelt, performed by some of the country's finest live musicians.

Andreas Rotevatn

A sure sign of spring: NTNU Jazzlinja on tour! This explosive ensemble consists of 15 unique musicians from Norway, Sweden and Iceland, with self-written material and polished arrangements.

Search Party

Chris, Kim and Øyvind have played together since 2018 and kicked things off by recording their debut album, "Mint," at their very first rehearsal together. The music of Orion's Belt is mostly instrumental and moves between the groovy and riff-driven and the dreamy and cinematic. This concert presents their new album, "Pur Jus."

Orion's Belt

Rooted in soul and improvisation, Sanyu creates a soulful expression with warm harmonies, while playing with rap and groove-based riffs. With a sprinkling of spoken word and hammering jazz on top, we are promised an atmosphere that lasts the whole evening.

Sanyu

A quartet that weaves threads between jazz, folk music and Americana. The band consists of Kåre Opheim, Toivo Fjose, Mathias Marstrander and Aksel Røed.

The Red Barn

Experimental folk duo combining Shetland folk music with jazz. The duo consists of Corrie Dick (drums and electronics) and Norman Wilmore (saxophone and electronics).

Norman&Corrie (UK)

Jazzklubben

Come join the party with the young talents from Search Party (NTNU). There may even be guest artists! You get access to the jam at Ungdomshallen if you have a Friday day pass or a festival pass.

JazzJam at Ungdomshallen

Forward-leaning band started by four friends in the jazz program in Trondheim. With tuba, synth, vocals, guitar and drums, they play experimental and dynamic music, both for dancing and for contemplation.

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Pentagon

Commissioned concert created for Vossa Jazz 2027 and co-produced by Kvarts and Vossa Jazz. A follow-up to the Kvarts and Vossa Jazz collaboration from 2010, featuring new music inspired by Norwegian and Swedish traditional music.

Opening Concert 2027: Vossakvartet 2

Bendik comes to Vossa Jazz with the album «Hysj», released January 16, 2026. A more band-driven record where contrasts and big emotions take center stage.

Bendik

Commission 2027 by Anja Lauvdal, working title "Suddenly Born Into Color". The 46th commissioned work in the history of Vossa Jazz. A new work inspired by gospel and hymn music, with a subtitle taken from a poem by Rumi.

Commission 2027: Anja Lauvdal // Suddenly Born Into Color

Icelandic band known for dense vocal harmonies and catchy hooks, with dynamic live performances and synthesizers. The concert is included in the Huskort Park Saturday, Day Pass Saturday and Festival Pass; single tickets are not available.

Moses Hightower

A big band concert featuring young talents from Western Norway, together with saxophonist Marius Neset, drummer Anton Eger and musicians from Bergen Big Band. Blest is part of the TalentVest mentorship program.

Blest – TalentVest Youth Big Band with Marius Neset

In the Camilla Hole Trio, Norwegian slåtts and traditional tunes take on new life through improvisation and a distinctive sonic universe. Hardanger fiddle tunes find new paths on saxophone and vibraphone, while jew's harp tones ring side by side with microtonal synth sounds. In February 2026, the trio released its third album, Langs.

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Mar 19, 2027

Madmax

Mar 19, 2027

Opening Concert 2027: Vossakvartet 2

Mar 19, 2027

Bendik

Mar 20, 2027

Commission 2027: Anja Lauvdal // Suddenly Born Into Color

Mar 20, 2027

Moses Hightower

Mar 29, 2026

SUPERJAZZ: Henrik Horge & Calypsokameratene

Mar 29, 2026

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